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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18
Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appetite
is poor, you are bothered with Headache,
you are fidgetty. nervous, and generally out
of sorts, and want to brace up. Brace up,
bitters, which have for their basis very cheap,
bad whskey, and which stimulate you for an
hour, and then leave you in wo.se condition
than before. What you wants an alderativ
that will purify your blood, start healthy
actor of Liver and kidneys, restore your
vitality, and give renewed strength Such 4
medicine you will find in Electric Bitters,
and only, 5o'cents bottle at Parkill Il
Son Drug Store. 8
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

Puck-What 10 an ounce of proven
ton? Well, quinine is, in New Jer.
sey.
Texas Siftinns: The receipts of a
walking match are properly called a
gait money.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

coz week anb upwards positively Sc
W&O cured by men agents selling DR.
SCOTS Genuine Electric Belt, Suspensory and
other appliances Sample free These are the
only original md genuine No humbug DR.
Scott, ga Broadway, New York
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

The Lowell Journal, speaking of
the proposed railway from Lowell to
Hastings, says: "Track laying on the
new railroad is now fairly under way,
and there is the air of live railroad
along the grade of the old Kalamazoo,
Hastings & Northern. The iron was
down Tuesday night to Tuckertown,
and the work will 60 rapidly forward
as long as the supply of ties holds
cut, and if the management succeeds
in getting ties on the ground in time,
two or three weeks will see the cars
at Freeport. The track was laid with
very fine quality of steel rails, and
the road bed beng so long aettled,
the road will equal any of the old
roads as soon as ballasted."
Mothers
There are upon the skin of every
human being, child and adult alike,
100000 pores. Through these
pores in the form of insensible per.
spiration, is expelled more than one
quarter of the nourishment taken into
the system. The importance of keep
ing open these perspiration valves
upon a child's body is second only to
that of promptly digesting the food
eaten. 1t was to open the pores of
the skin and to assimiate the food
that DIR. Pitcher formulated Castoria
Loose bowels, constipation, fevers
and eruptions which are so constant
among infants and children, and
which kill one-third of all children
before they are five years old, arise
principally from these two causes. 1t
is from the wonderful results attend.
ant upon the use of Castoria in regu.
lating the stomachs and bowels and
keeping open the pores of the skin,
that Castoria acquired its world wide
reputation. With plenty of water
for the body, pure air for the lungs
and Castoria to assimilate the food
there need be no unaccounted for
sickness among children Castoria
is a vegetable prescription without
morphine or other narcotic property.
Thirty years extensive use has given
it a history never attained by an.
other medicine.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

Puck-Atlas must have been round
shouldered.
The Judge-We are always apt to
think the best way is our own way.
Lifetime feathers may not make
fine birds but they make fine hats.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18
A COUNTRY THANKSGIVING.

Harvest is home. The bins are full,
The barns are running DER;
Both grains and fruits we've garnered in
Till we've no space for more.
We've worked and toiled through heat and cold,
To plant, to sow, TO reap;
And now for all this bounteous store
Let us THANKSGIVING keep.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18
lzzz ' 7I9 an
I'M PORTANT

When you visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire and stop at
the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central
Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at cost of one million
dollars reduced to 800 and upwards per day
European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied
with the best. Hose cars stages and elevated rail-
road to all depots Families can live better for less
money at the Gland Union Hotel than at any
other, frst-class hotel in the city.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

The Western Settlers Chosen Spe
cihc.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

OWoSSO Lodg e, No. ss, I. 9. .. f., meetseyery
" Friday evening, In Odd Fellows Hall, Sd
story, over the new Postoffice Building.
All brothers In good standing are cordially in
vited. III. A, MEDDAUGH, NC.
OSCAR WELLS, sec'y.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-18

All Trains Dailyexcept sunday.
II. f. WORCESTER, Station Agent Owosso
o. W. RpooLEs g. p. q T. A.. Chicago.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
A Dearth of comic writers.

The rarest talent among writers is the
comic and yet nearly every man who
writes in an amateur way thinks he is the
coming humorous man. [ have had con-
siderable connection with the profession
ally funny papers of New York and find
that they are overrun with gratuitous con-
tributions which are about as funny as the
bray of a donkey. 1t is hard to find a new
humorous genius, and therefore you Will
see the'same old names attached to the
column of jokes and the pictures. Just
now there is a dearth of such writer's, and
the publishers are after new men, because
the old ones have begun to play out. A
funny man does not last as long as the
author of serious writings, and it is a
genius that holds fresh for five years after
having worked regularly and depended
upon his humor for a livelihood. If you
recall the names that figured prominent in
the humorous papers five years ago you
will discover that they have disappeared
almost entirely from observation. Per-
haps they have become police reporters or
are grinding out cheap wit on some insig-
nificant newspapers A. Macon in
Globe-Democrat.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
Her Own Nursemaid.

Fifth avenue is determined not to re-
semble common streets, if it can be
helped. A few years ago French caps
were put on the swell nursemaids and
housemaids. 1t was for a while fashion
able distinction. But pretty soon the
style extended downward, and still fur
Their downward, until people of no dis
tinction whatever capped their dOmestics.
Why, encountered our family coachman
one day petting baby that was being
drawn in it's little carriage by young
woman who wore the regulation white
apron and cap.
eff you please, miss he said, ''stop
and see my young 'un."
Ichucked the baby under its pudgy chin,
as felt bound to do, and said something
ssAnd, if you please, this is my wife, -
the coachman added.
Yes, the pretended nurse girl was the
mother of the child whom she was
trundling. How was that for aping the
fashions of the rich? If the infant
couldn't have hired attendant then it's
own mamma would masquerade as one
Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
Gipsx Grandams OF the Camp.

At nearly every tent mouth or in nearly
every wagon front you Will see one or
more of the cid spae-wives of the camp.
These are the gypsy grandams. They are
tall and strong, though wrinkled and
6rewsome If away past foUrscOre years
of age, they have their own teeth, are
wonderful il. their legs and in their facul-
ties, and are living lessons of the health
fuIness of out door life. They are not put
aside as we do our own old folk. They are
the seers, the prophetesses, the advisers,
the strong, safe, reserve influence in all
the important affairs of the race. Many
and many l know well, though they are
hard to know. But they will not disclose
like the younger growth and you have to
battle your way bravely and with valiant
perSistency to reach their inner lives
With their shrill, keen voices; their
coarse gray hair which never becomes
fairly white; their fiat brown, ever open
breasts, like rugged studies in bronze;
their quick, swinging and seemingly fierce
gait, suggesting unchanging power; their
long, skinny arms and legs, half shown to
the knee, and their eyes, undimmed to
their dying day, though never knowing
shade from the sun other than that of the
tree or tent-they are the really witching
part of the Rommany people; and as you
study them by the camp fires there, though
you are impressed with the respect and
even tenderness all yield them, you can
for the first time rightly understand how
Lancashire Witches came to be written,
and how true a type Scott's Meg Merrilies
may have been. These old spae-wives
never labor They increasingly putter.
They poke the fires when they need no
poking. They fuss with the cooking meals
at all sorts of inopportune moments.
They quarrel with the thinkers, who yelp
hoo hon oil of fr11 h06
mage. They beat the dogs numerically
for no offense, for no human ever saw a
gypsy dog commit an improperly They
berate sons and grandsons for alleged I'M
satisfactory dickering, and garrulously
insist that the world shall be made more
and more the gipsy's prey.-Edgar l..
Wakeman in Chicago News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
Dress Reform Seventy Years Ago.


NV grandmother has been telling me
something about how the present styles
in women's under garments came into
vogue. When she was child, she said,
no one wore any lower under clothes eX
cept stockings. After a while there came
a fashion for pantalettes, which consisted
simply of a broad ruffle fastened by a
tight band just below the knee. Children
used to have two sets, white ones for best,
and yellow nankeen or calico for every day
wear. She said there was reason for
the fashion of pantalettes, as there is for
every degree of fashion People had be-
gun to think it more sensible to put short
dresses on children rather than long
gowns reaching below their ankles, and,
to make the custom modest, the extra
coverings for the limbs was invented. But
the presence of a tight band about the
leg was Objectionable on account of its
discomfort, and the remedy for this led to
the next step in the evolution of the pres
ent lower under garment. To the outside
of the broad ruffle was attached the base
of a long, acute angle triangle of cloth.
This triangle extended up the waist,
where it was buttOned to the chemise.
This relieved the pressure from the band,
but, as the support was One-sided, it
caused the ruffle to hang unevenly at
times.
The only remedy for this seemed to be
the adoption of the present form, in
which the whole of the lower portion of
the body is covered. For a long time if
anybody dared dream of such an limo
walton she dared not speak of it, and when
at last the bounds were leaped by. some
courageous women, who donned the first
drawers, there was q wonderful hue and
cry, compared to which anything in the
history of modern reform is as nothing.
''WOmen wear garments like menu
''Women trying to get into trousersP'
''HorrOrl Shamei' But the reform pre-
vailed.-Chicago Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
Bo-shway is an IrishTnan.

COON, dated Nov. 81, state: 1.-THE greatest
of the Dacoit leaders, one Bo-Shway, seems
to defy US everywhere. He is most active
in the Minhla district, where the naval
brigades are acting, and has Z well
equipped following of daring and desper-
ate men. Every effort is, however, being
made to surround him, jungle and all. It
is said that this freebooter is really an
Irishman, named Barney O'Shea, which,
from the abbreviation of B. O'Shea, has
got corrupted into Burmese as Bo-ShWay."
London Telegraph.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
School Hygiene in saxonv.

At Chemnitz, in Saxony, the school adj
m1nlstration has set an example in hygiene
that is well worthy of imitation every
where, as it must evidently lead TO an i'm
mense decrease in the sick lists of the
schools. All the pupils are required to
bring with them a pair of slippers OF
shoes, in which they shall remain during
school hours. The wet shoes or boots. in
which they arrive, have to be taken off,
and, after being dried in a room specially
set apart for that purpose, are returned to
them on leaving atnoon and in the after
noon.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
DREAM POEMS.

But my poems in dreams have been sweeter
Than the songs have heard when awake,
And the rhythmical flow of their meter
Than the fall of the leaf or the flake.
They were idyls not born OF the senses,
And their beauty of form was sublime,
And 1 verify do them offenses
AS tempt them to eLter my rhyme.
They were beautiful soLgs of the fancles,
And they foated away in dream
To the music whose sweetness entrances
as the murmur and flow Of the stream.
Lee. FairchiId in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
.Julian Hawthorne ON the Bards.

The poets we have always with US, and
they sing all manner of tunes. To look
through the little volumes of their produc-
lions is like listening to a number of mu-
sicians, each playing different piece.
There is great deal of fair verse written
In America-more to the square mile, /
should say, than in NEST other countries;
but of poetry, properly so called, the sup
ply Is not extensive. Julian Hawthorne.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-25
Curious Geological Phenomenon,

A curious geological phenomenon exists
in the vicinity Of Behring's strait. AT
Elephant point, Kotzebue sound, ridge
two miles wide and $50 feet high seems to
be vast mass of ice, thinly covered with
clay and vegetable mold, In this soil
birches, alders and berry bearing plants
grow luxuriantly, with the stratum of
perpetual ice as the underlying rock within
less than foot from their roots.-Boston
Rndret
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26

second returned verdict of not guilty.
This verdict was wholly unexpected by
Judge Bach, who it seems considered the
evidence ample for conviction. In dis
charging the jury the court showed his
disapproyal of their verdict in the follow
ing language: ''Gentlemen of the jury,
it is not my province to examine into the
consciences of this jury, but 1t is my pro-
vince, and it is my duty, and it is pro-
vince that 1 will perform, to see that the
territory of Montana and Custer county
shall have fair trial. trial by men who
will do justice to the territory, and the
court says now that while tins case is dis
posed of once and for all as to both of
these defendants, that the jurymcn who
sat upon the case may consider themselves
excused from every jury that l have in
this county, or any other county in which
may hold court. All Of these men are
excused from further attendance upon
this court as jurors as long as have the
honor to preside over it." And after the
jury had thus been discharged the court
said further as follows: 1.-The county at
torney is directed that whenever there is
prosecution of any of the genus round
er,' to apply for a change of venue, as a
favor to the court"
To this severe rebuke the jury assert
that they conscientiously and fairly reach
ed such a verdict and that such language
and conduct of the judge presiding was
direct and premeditated insult to them
as jurymen, personally and collectively,
and also an insult to every citizen of Gus
ter county and the territory of Montana.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26
Barnums Great Circus and Menagerie
Burned.

Barnum's Great Circus and Menagerie
Burned.
The main building of Barnum & Bail
ev's "Greatest Show on Earth at Bridge
port, Conn, was burned last Sunday The
building was 6OOx2O0 feet and two stories
in height, and before the first alarm ceased
sounding the whole structure was en-
veloped IN flames and 30 one dared ap-
proach it, being fearful of the crazed ami
mails. Three elephants were burned up
and thirty-six broke from their fastenings
and dashed through the sides OF the burn
ing structure, roaring and trumpeting in
terrific manner. Six elephants and a large
African hippopotamus rushed about the
streets presenting sickening appearance.
Their sides were burned and great pieces
of flesh a foot square fell off. Thirty ele-
phants and large lion started across the
country towards Fairfield and Easton.
Great excitement seized many residents
and they barred the windows and doors
of their houses. In the horse room were
all their ring animals, trained stations,
ponies, ETC., and all were burned. In the
call room We're the birds, monkeys, rhin-
oceroses, hyenas, tigers. lions and all the
menagerie which also fell a prey to the
flames. A great deal of valuable tent and
other property was also burned. The to-
| tai loss is estimated at not less than 800,
900, with but 100000 insurance. The
watchman discovered the fire while max
ing his rounds and started to give an
alarm when some unknown person hit
him on the head with some blunt instru-
ment One of the three elephants burned
was the sacred white elephant. A lior
which escaped was later found in barr
where he had killed and was devouring q
COW. He was shot.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26
Terrible Sea Disaster.

A frightful sea disaster occurred IN the
English Channel last Sunday, caused by
the collision of the Dutch steamer Schol-
ton with the steamer Rosa Mary, of Har-
tlepool. The Scholton was bound for
New York and had on board ZIG persons.
The steamer Ebro rescued "a Of the crew
and passengers leaving 1872 drowned and
missing. At the time of the accident a
dense fog prevailed. The Scholton was
struck on the port bow by the Rosa Mary.
Immediately after the shock was felt the
Scholton's passengers, all of whom had
retired for the night, rushed on deck IN
their night gowns. Boats were promptly
ordered lowered, but it was found that
only two were available; three others
were useless and were not lowered. The
water rushed swiftly through h hole in
the bow and terrible scene ensued. The
panic stricken passengers uttered piercing
shrieks. and many fell upon their knees
and prayed aloud. Little children clung
to their mothers, who themselves were
shrieking with terror. The officers were
self possessed and remained on the bridge
to the last. Several persons procured life
belts and leaped into the sea. Within
twenty minutes of the shock the steamer
was engulfed. All those who had put or
life belts floated and were rescued by boat:
from the steamer Ebro, which cruiseG
around until o'clock in the morning
| MANY of the rescued lost wives, husbands
brothers and sisters. The survivors were
supplied with clothes and everything pos
sible was done to ensure their comfort
Passengers accounts differ regarding tn
circumstances of the collision, and re
ports of officers of the Scholton's clasl
with those Of the officers of the Ros
Mary.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26

The Big Bend tunnel, by which
Feather river is to be tuT1.ed from it's
course. is 1900 feet long, twelve feet
wide, aud sixteen feet high. 1t is in
solid rock most of the way, and cost
nearly s1,OOO,OOO. The new channel for
the river is about four miles long, while
the old channel is fourteen in length.
The object is to obtain gold lying in the
bed of the river at this point. The
prospects for a rich return are said to
be excellent. deposits of 800 to $500
worth of gold being found in small hol-
lows.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26
A Severe Rebuke.

The case of W. E. Cotter and Lolita
Schroeder, indicted for conspiracy to de-
fraud certain insurance companies in Gus
ter county, was twice tried in the district
court at Miles City last week. In the first
instance the jury disagreed and in the
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26
Heavy Tax Payers.

Following is list of Park county tax
,ayers whose real estate and personal
,rnnnrt.t toy amounts to over X1OO each ::
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26

furniture factory. His wife, the poy
mother, is dead.
A Chicago paper is authority for the
statement that Nina Van Zandt, Spies
proxy wife, IS wasting away, food not hav-
ing passe'! her lips since the day before
Spies was hanged. Mrs. Van Zandt said
"Haye you heard that an effort was made
to revive August after his body reached
the undertaken? Well, it Is true. The
physicians used an electric battery for an
hour or more. August never appeared II
be dead. His lips were moist and his
cheeks were warm after his body was re-
celved from the jail"
Reports from Prescott, Arizona, are uni
form in the statement that an apparently
wonderful discovery of gold ledge has
been made on Hassayampa river, ten miles
from Prescott. The strike was made on
a s,de-hill, two hundred feet above the
level Of the creek. The product of the
mine thus far is declared to be the richest
ever known on the coast, and had natur-
ally provoked great excitement throughout
Arizona. The ledge is twenty inches wide,
runs north and south, and can be traced
for nearly two miles. Quartz rock taken
from the ledge is said to average one hund-
red thousand dollars of gold a ton.
A Detroit, Michigan, special says that
ex-United States Senator Jones, of Florida,
who has sojourned in Detroit for the past
two years. being in love with a young
lady Of that city, and who has ever refused
his attentions, is now practically beggar
upon the streets, and but for the charity
of friend would be without food OF
shelter at night. The story says he has
run through all his money and completely
exhausted his credit. Leading members
of the democratic party, as we'll as high
church officials, and others, have repeat
edly urged him to 60 home to Florida.
but he will not do it. His mind is un
doubtedly affected.
Previous to the adjournment of the
north Alabama conference of the Southern
Methodist church at Tuscaloosa Monday
night, a resolution was adopthd requesting
D. G. Kelly, of Nashville, an EN-
nent Methodist divine and missionary
treasurer of the general conference, to re-
sign his official position on account of his
utterance in reference to the Emma Alb.
bott episode at Nashville. The resolution
created great excitement through
out the entire southern Methods
church. Dr. Kelly gallantly defended
Miss Abbott in rising in church to de
fend herself against harsh terms uset
against theatre going.
In the Missouri state convention of th'
united labor party at Kansas City reso
luton favoring the adoption Of the SYRIA
cuse platform was offered and strongl..
opposed, several delegates advocating tn
adoption Of the Cincinnati platform o
the union labor party The debate result
ed in the adoption Of series OF resolu
tions endorsing the free soil platform o
1852, favoring single tax on land value
and declaring that "All such monopolie
as have been built up by the assistance o
the government through grant of specia
privileges and all necessary enterprise
exceeding the power of individual ablllt,,
should be owned and controlled 10y tn
government, as the postal system now is
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26
A Fort Worth, Texas, special says the

A Fort Worth, Texas, special says the
widow of Lieut.. Harrington, who per-
ished in the Custer massacre, has been
missing since 1885 and is supposed by
her relations to be dead. Mrs. Harring-
ton grieved over her husbands death
until she became mad Her delusion
was that Lieut. Harrington had not
been killed. but was captured by the In
dians. She disappeared while visiting
friends IN Texas, and is supposed to
have started out to search for her hus-
band and to have been lost or either
starved to death or murdered. Her rel
atives have not made the fact public
until now.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26

A. G.. Frink, section boss, while dong
some blasting on the railroad near Glen
dive sustained serious injury by a pre-
mature explosion which affected his eyes
SO that it is thought he will lose bis eye
sight.